http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-05-06T17:08:28+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=adrianna_kezar&rev=1750081549&do=diff Adrianna Kezar Biography Adrianna Kezar is a multidisciplinary higher education educational scholar whose work consistently highlights the creation of inclusive and fair educational institutions, especially in higher education. Her scholarly work is influenced by her multidisciplinary thinking and previous professional experience in student affairs administration. Through her work, Dr. Kezar has expanded our understanding of educational issues ranging from STEM reform to organizational change.… text/html 2026-04-18T14:21:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=geoffrey_canada&rev=1776522109&do=diff Geoffrey Canada (b. 1952) Biography Geoffrey Canada is an American educator, social entrepreneur, author, and community leader whose creation of the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) reimagined what a school and its surrounding community could be for children living in concentrated poverty. Born on January 13, 1952, Canada grew up in the South Bronx of New York City with his single mother and three siblings. 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His father, Semyon Vygotsky, was a bank official, and the family moved to Gomel — a lively provincial city — when Lev was a year old; it was there that he spent his formative years, tutored at home by Solomon Ashpiz, a celebrated private teacher whose Socratic, dialogic m… text/html 2026-04-20T07:43:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=jerome_bruner&rev=1776671038&do=diff Jerome Bruner (1915–2016) Biography Jerome Seymour Bruner was born on 1 October 1915 in New York City, the son of Herman Bruner, a watchmaker of Polish-Jewish immigrant background, and Rose Gluckmann. He was born blind — cataracts that were surgically corrected in infancy — and later reflected that this early encounter with the problem of perception may have seeded a lifelong fascination with how human beings construct their understanding of the world. 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Her pare… text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=charlotte_hawkins_brown&rev=1750081549&do=diff Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1883-1961) Biography Charlotte Hawkins Brown was a prominent Black educator and activist who played a significant role in advancing education and activism, particularly for Black children in the Jim Crow South. Born on June 11, 1883, in Henderson, North Carolina, just eight years after Emancipation, Brown's early life was marked by her mother's dedication to education and her exposure to teaching and public speaking at a young age. text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=chester_evans_finn&rev=1750081549&do=diff Chester E. Finn, Jr. Biography Chester E. 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Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to an enslaved mother, she faced early hardships but was encouraged by her mother to pursue education. Cooper dedicated her life to advancing educational opportunities for Black women and girls, emphasizing the importance of literacy and intellectual progress. She served as a teacher and principal at the M Street Sc… text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=bhimrao_ramji_ambedkar&rev=1750081549&do=diff Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) Biography Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), popularly known as Babasaheb, was a prominent figure in Indian history, revered for his contributions to social reform and education. Born into the Mahar community, considered untouchables in Maharashtra, Ambedkar overcame societal barriers to become a leading voice for the oppressed. His family's improved economic status, thanks to British policies allowing people of all castes to join the army, enabled him to pu… text/html 2026-04-20T01:02:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=cai_yuan_pei&rev=1776646937&do=diff Cai Yuanpei (1868–1940) Biography Cai Yuanpei (蔡元培, Thái Nguyên Bồi) was one of the most influential educators and thinkers of modern China, widely credited with transforming Chinese higher education during the turbulent transition from the Qing dynasty to the Republic of China. Born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, Cai received a rigorous classical education in the Confucian tradition, passing the imperial examination at a young age and earning the prestigious jinshi degree, after which he bri… text/html 2025-06-20T00:53:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=carol_dweck&rev=1750380822&do=diff Carol Dweck Biography Carol Dweck is a renowned educational psychologist whose work has significantly advanced understanding of motivation, intelligence, and personality. She pursued her undergraduate degree in psychology at Barnard College and earned her graduate studies at Yale University, where she developed her foundational research in cognitive psychology and learning theory. Mentored by notable scholars such as Dr. Allan Wagner and Dr. Robert Rescorla, she deepened her expertise in cogni… text/html 2025-07-31T23:47:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=cyril_lodowic_burt&rev=1754005622&do=diff Cyril Lodowic Burt (Sir) (1883-1971) Biography Cyril L. Burt was born in 1883 in Snitterfield, Warwickshire, England, and grew up in a family with strong academic roots, as his father was a family physician. He excelled academically during his school years, earning scholarships to prestigious institutions like Christ’s Hospital and Jesus College, Oxford. 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Born on April 6, 1931, in New York City to Joseph and Pearl Willen — both politically active, with Joseph running the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and Pearl volunteering widely and running once for City Council — Meier was raised in a household co… text/html 2026-04-20T02:56:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=edward_de_bono&rev=1776653792&do=diff Edward de Bono (1933–2021) Biography Edward de Bono was a Maltese physician, psychologist, and prolific author whose work over more than five decades made “thinking” a teachable subject in its own right and introduced two of the most widely used vocabularies in twentieth-century cognitive practice: *lateral thinking* and *parallel thinking*. Born in Malta in 1933, de Bono came from a family in which, by his own account, two strands converged: a strong medical orientation from his father, a pro… text/html 2026-04-20T02:58:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=elliot_eisner&rev=1776653905&do=diff Elliot Eisner (1933–2014) Biography Elliot Wayne Eisner was an American painter, art educator, and educational theorist whose career at Stanford University made him the foremost advocate for the cognitive, curricular, and methodological importance of the arts in education. 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The Museum was akin to a medieval university in its devotion … text/html 2026-04-18T19:07:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=jane_addams&rev=1776539265&do=diff Jane Addams (1860–1935) Biography Jane Addams was born on 6 September 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois, the daughter of John Huy Addams — a mill owner, state senator, and personal friend of Abraham Lincoln — whose civic example proved a formative influence on her moral imagination. She graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881 and briefly attended the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia before ill health and a deepening sense of purposelessness led her to abandon medicine; a transformati… text/html 2026-04-20T09:03:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=jan_vermunt&rev=1776675812&do=diff Jan Vermunt (1956–) Biography Jan D. Vermunt is a Dutch learning scientist and educational psychologist whose career has traced one of the most coherent and productive intellectual arcs in the modern study of learning: from a systematic analysis of how university students learn, to a theory of how teaching can productively challenge learning, to an investigation of how teachers themselves learn and develop across their professional careers. He completed his doctoral dissertation at Tilburg Uni… text/html 2026-04-18T19:20:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=lee_s._shulman&rev=1776540020&do=diff Lee S. Shulman (1938– ) Biography Lee S. Shulman was born in 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Jewish immigrant parents who operated a family delicatessen — an early and informal school in social navigation, customer relations, and the interpretation of human character. He attended an Orthodox Jewish day school in which Talmudic study in the mornings was paired with secular subjects in the afternoons, an experience that cultivated both the habits of close textual analysis and the convictio… text/html 2026-04-19T08:35:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=maria_montessori&rev=1776587727&do=diff Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Biography Maria Montessori was born in Chiaravalle, in the Marche region of Italy, and grew up in Rome, where her father worked as a civil servant. From an early age she defied the gender expectations of late nineteenth-century Italian society: she insisted on pursuing scientific studies despite institutional barriers, enrolled in the University of Rome's Faculty of Medicine — one of the first women to do so in Italy — and graduated as a medical doctor in 1896, one… text/html 2026-04-18T19:24:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=martha_c._nussbaum&rev=1776540242&do=diff Martha Craven Nussbaum (1947– ) Biography Martha Craven Nussbaum was born on 6 May 1947 in New York City, into a prosperous family that gave her early access to music, theatre, and the arts — experiences she has credited with shaping her conviction that the humanities are indispensable to a fully developed human life. 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His path to becoming the founding theorist of contemporary distance education (DE) began not in North America but in East Africa, where he worked between 1963 and 1970, developing and teaching what is believed to be one of the first DE programmes in Africa — a correspo… text/html 2026-04-18T19:39:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=michael_pressley&rev=1776541197&do=diff Michael Pressley (1951–2006) Biography Michael Pressley was born in 1951 and dedicated his professional life to bridging cognitive-developmental science and educational practice in the elementary classroom. As an undergraduate at Northwestern University, where he majored in psychology, he completed a thesis investigating the memory strategies used by elementary school students — an early indicator of the research trajectory that would define his career. Influenced by Benton Underwood and Donal… text/html 2026-04-20T07:34:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=nguyen_phuoc_vinh_bang&rev=1776670468&do=diff Nguyễn Phước Vĩnh Bang (1922–2008) Biography Nguyễn Phước Vĩnh Bang — known internationally as Vinh-Bang — was born in 1922 in Vietnam, then part of French Indochina, and arrived in Geneva in 1948, where he would spend the rest of his professional life as one of the most trusted and productive members of text/html 2026-04-19T08:52:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=phan_chau_trinh&rev=1776588740&do=diff Phan Châu Trinh (1872–1926) Biography Phan Châu Trinh (Phan Chu Trinh, 潘周楨) was born on 9 September 1872 in Tây Lộc village, Hà Đông district of Quảng Nam province in central Vietnam, the third son of a scholar-official father who also trained him in military skills. When French forces swept through the region in 1885 pursuing the fugitive rebel king Hàm Nghi, the young Phan fought alongside his father before resuming his classical education in 1887; he passed the regional mandarin examination… text/html 2026-04-19T08:24:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=richard_elmore&rev=1776587083&do=diff Richard Elmore (1945–2021) Biography Richard Elmore was one of the most consequential scholars of educational leadership and school improvement of his generation, whose career combined serious academic inquiry with deep, sustained engagement in the practical work of schools. He served as the Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1990 until his death on 9 February 2021, and in that role he shaped the thinking of hundreds of aspiring ed… text/html 2026-04-21T02:16:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=start&rev=1776737786&do=diff Albus' Educators Encyclopedia (AEE) This Educators Encyclopedia provides a concise overview of well-known educators, their noteworthy projects, and their activities. The collection is assembled by Dr. Anh-Duc Hoang (Albus), a Vietnamese educational researcher and activist, purely for his own use as a record of his reading; it does not adhere to any norms and standards. The technical support for this site is provided by his brother text/html 2026-04-20T01:58:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=tran_thanh_van&rev=1776650335&do=diff Trần Thanh Vân (1936–) Biography Trần Thanh Vân — known in the French scientific world as Jean Trần Thanh Vân — was born on 4 July 1936 in Đồng Hới, Quảng Bình Province, in the narrow coastal corridor of central Vietnam that has historically been among the most war-exposed regions of the country. 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